1891 - 1940
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ‿bʊlˈɡakəf]; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He is also known for his novel The White Guard; his plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins; and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Bulgakov has received more than 1,783,988 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Mikhail Bulgakov is the 142nd most popular writer (up from 152nd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.
Mikhail Bulgakov is most famous for his novel, The Master and Margarita.
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Among writers, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 142 out of 5,755. Before him are Charlotte Brontë, Catullus, Tove Jansson, William Blake, H. G. Wells, and Kālidāsa. After him are Aldous Huxley, Guillaume Apollinaire, Emily Brontë, Murasaki Shikibu, Pindar, and Elias Canetti.
1816 - 1855
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 136
84 BC - 54 BC
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 137
1914 - 2001
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 138
1757 - 1827
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 139
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 140
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 141
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 142
1894 - 1963
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 143
1880 - 1918
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 144
1818 - 1848
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 145
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 146
517 BC - 437 BC
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 147
1905 - 1994
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 148
Among people born in 1891, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 6. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, Sergei Prokofiev, and B. R. Ambedkar. After him are Walter Model, James Chadwick, Max Ernst, Edith Stein, Nelly Sachs, and Henry Miller. Among people deceased in 1940, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 6. Before him are Leon Trotsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Selma Lagerlöf, Neville Chamberlain, and Paul Klee. After him are Walter Benjamin, J. J. Thomson, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Emma Goldman, and Carl Bosch.
1891 - 1980
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 1
1891 - 1944
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 2
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 3
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 4
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 5
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 6
1891 - 1945
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 7
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 8
1891 - 1976
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 9
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 10
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 11
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 12
1879 - 1940
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 1
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 2
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 3
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 4
1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 5
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 6
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 7
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 8
1918 - 1940
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 9
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 10
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 11
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 12
Among people born in Ukraine, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 13 out of 1,083. Before him are Hafsa Sultan (1479), Stepan Bandera (1909), Ilya Repin (1844), Golda Meir (1898), Kazimir Malevich (1879), and John III Sobieski (1629). After him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942).
1479 - 1534
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 7
1909 - 1959
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 8
1844 - 1930
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 9
1898 - 1978
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 10
1879 - 1935
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 11
1629 - 1696
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 12
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 13
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 14
1831 - 1891
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 15
1595 - 1657
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 16
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 17
1814 - 1861
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 18
942 - 972
HPI: 72.03
Rank: 19
Among writers born in Ukraine, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 2. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809). After him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 1
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 2
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 3
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 4
1814 - 1861
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 5
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 6
1836 - 1895
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 7
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 8
1859 - 1916
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 9
1891 - 1967
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 10
1905 - 1964
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 11
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 12